Joseph ben Nathan Official

Joseph ben Nathan ha - meqanne ("The Avid" ) was a acting in the 13th century Jewish exegete from the Official family in Sens in France, which has provided numerous apologists. He defended like his father Natan Judaism energetically towards Christianity.

He also edited the report of Yehiel ben Joseph over the defense of Paris 1240. In his sefer josef ha - meqanne ( "Book of the zealot Josef" ) he treated primarily Christological interpretation of the Old Testament and wrote critical observations on the life and work of Jesus according to the Gospels, in which he utilized Hebrew translations of the New Testament texts. This is on the order of the Tanakh exploratory polemical treatise refuted Christian, allegorical interpretations by means of philological and rational- logical reasoning. Each topic / chapter of a fictional narrator ( Pope Gregory X., French bishops, Jewish converts, among others) presented and then discussed controversially.

The later Jewish apologetics leaning far on his well-founded criticism of the New Testament and his knowledge of Christianity.